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August 10, 2006
Darwin Calendar Server - Success
So, I managed to get the Darwin Calendar Server up and running.
It's still pretty primitive, but once I got Python 2.4 installed, and followed the QuickStart instructions (once they were posted), I was in business. I had a CalDAV server listening on port 8008 of my laptop. I could connect to it in with my web browser, authenticate as admin, and see .ics files in the directory, but that's the extent of the web access at present. In theory, OSAF's Scooby could potentially be connected to it to provide a Web Calendar, until either one is provided or Leopard Server is used.
I then went looking for clients to connect to it. iCal won't support CalDAV until Leopard comes out, so I went looking for other alternatives. I first tried OSAF's Chandler, but that didn't work so well. I couldn't get the OS X version to run for more than 30 seconds(it was version 0.7a3), let alone connect to the server. I then grabbed Mozilla Sunbird and gave it a try. It's working reasonably well.
There aren't any instructions on tying it into LDAP yet - it's right now only using a single hard-coded "admin" account, so the ability to schedule events with other users is unclear at present. Sunbird greyed out the "invite other users" button, but that may just be normal for all I know.
Posted by sdh7 at August 10, 2006 01:22 PM
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